I was walking through the V & A museum in London, amazed by the David Bowie retrospective, and admiring the fantastic costumes and imagery chosen from the Bowie private archives when a thin, bare-chested creature with heavy make-up suddenly landed on the floor, as if falling from the ceiling.

– I’m amazed by your costumes. There is the Union Jack coat designed by Bowie and Alexander McQueen, and the striped body suit designed by Kansai Yamamoto, which makes Comme des Garçons looking almost conservative. What do you think of Fashion today?

– I don’t know. I went to Uniqlo today, but didn’t find anything I could wear. Everything looks outrageous on me.

– Did you try Prada?

– Oh, I know Prada. We also have Prada stores on Mars.

– You were so advanced for your time, I mean, this androgynous look of yours… how was it to be a bisexual space man on earth in 1972?

– Well, I thought everyone was a bisexual. But more than that, I was a new type of Rock Star. As Bowie said, “I always had a repulsive need to be something more that human.”